Never work with children or animals. So goes the oft-quoted W.C. Fields idiom. But The Friend, now making its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, is a lively argument for why animals, ...

Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel preview what they call a "well-bred" film: "This very fraught story also being funny, we found it irresistible." Naomi Watts reluctantly becomes the caretaker ...

Naomi Watts grapples with grief and becomes a dog caretaker in the first trailer for The Friend. On Tuesday, Bleecker Street released the clip for the upcoming film, which poignantly captures Watts ...

This sentence is repeated close to a dozen times in The Friend, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel about a woman, a ghost, and a 180-pound Great Dane, and it’s the second biggest question that ...

The last time Naomi Watts saw David Lynch was in late November. “We had a beautiful lunch at his house,” she recalls of an afternoon spent with the director and fellow Lynch muse Laura Dern. “I knew ...

Back in 2001, when Naomi Watts blew everyone away in her breakthrough performance in “Mulholland Drive,” you might have predicted she would go on to receive two Oscar nominations. But few could have ...